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There's an app called "WiFi Map". The largest database of WiFi networks and passwords I know. And it can work offline, if you pre-load specific area you're interested in. Never disappointed me in my trips. Oh, and it has not only airports, but every possible WiFi network. Some people even give access to their home WiFi.

The Power Of PowerPoint : there is a whole load of PowerPoint templates to download. Like for every theme possible. Needless to say that it can help you save a lot of time AND provide a very professional looking presentation.

It's a shame a didn't know it's existence back at school...

Edit (for visibility) :

For Google Slide, some of you (thanks to /u/Kazozz and the others!) suggested using Slide Carnival. Check that out, people!

- Project Gutenberg: >57k free ebooks in public domain, really good if you like reading the classics or want to practice reading in another language- people often overlook the fact they have tons of books in foreign languages

- OpenCourser: A little search engine for online courses, great for finding something new to learn (especially career-related skills)

- The Cutting Room Floor: For gamers, an amazing site that digs up all of the hidden easter eggs / fun bugs found in video games, great for binge-ing "did-you-know" kind of factoids

Edit: sorry not preloaded, but office 2016 is also free if youre a student on that site. Also write down your cd keys. Went to wipe me computer months later and they wanted to charge like $20 me to view my cd key for windows.

I discovered it through a similar thread. You check off your food and ingredients that you have and it suggests recipes.

I use it often and have gotten better at cooking and more creative with using what I already have. I've been shocked at what I've been able to make when I'm so sure I have nothing and am going to staaaaarve.

Sooo, basically a website version of my great grandmother when she used to stay with us for a few days.

Edit: she came over from Italy around 1910 on a boat as a little girl by herself. Her parents came later. She made shoes at a factory and always made the most pairs every day of all the workers. Having been through the depression, she didn’t waste a thing. She lived to be 103.

Also ReviewMeta.com. It also has Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari extensions so you can just click on it when viewing an Amazon page to open a new tab to that item's calculations. Been using it a few years now.

The best automated translator in the world. It uses neural net architecture to get meaningful sentences instead of literal word translations that lead to nonsense. You can feed in Word docs or PowerPoints and it will translate the entire thing!

It's a fun little website when you're feeling nostalgic and want to kill some time. It basically uses YouTube videos to simulate watching TV in 90's and you can specify what year you want and what categories you want to see when you change channels.

https://www.lightningmaps.org
Shows local lightning strikes INCLUDING LIVE SHOCKWAVES! I was at a waterpark that got stormed out recently and used it to determine whether it was worth waiting for the rain to pass

Just Watch It’s a search engine for streaming services. Basically, you put in the movie or show you wanna watch, and it will tell you what streaming service has it, or where you can rent/buy it digitally and for how much.

Edit: Thank you for the gold, whoever you are!! 😊

Also, this is for those of us who prefer to watch everything legally either through a paid subscription service, or by renting a digital copy. Obviously if you are going to watch pirated versions, this site won’t be useful to you.

I would not direct you to the main putlocker page if you asked me this. It's not got a place to search through a bunch of movies. I also wouldn't recommend to you couchtuner.fr for TV shows. The site watchcartoon (no "s") is a place I certainly wouldn't mention if you were looking for anime or cartoons. I also wouldn't advise you to make sure you have a good adblocker installed before visiting any such sites because I would never tell you to go to sites that are so blatantly in violation of copyright laws.

Actually, because of how it does it, Google can be one of the best sites for this.

Whenever performing a perfectly legal search for perfectly legal websites, you can look at the bottom of the screen for the "DMCA complaints" text. If you actually click on the "Complaint" links, then Ctrl + F what you were looking for, you'll find the copyright claim listing.

Among other things, the copyright claim listing includes the removed link, which still functions exactly as intended.

Tineye is good if you're using Interpals or a dating site and you think someone you've come across might be a catfish. Using it for that purpose can be a bit hit-or-miss though because not every catfish is dumb enough to use a picture easily found via Google images or Tineye, but for the more obvious ones, it can find them pretty easily.

Honestly, if I were catfishing, I'd get easy to find pictures. If the person cares enough to search the picture online, then I wouldn't want to waste time on them when I could be catfishing more gullible people.

There is a theory that this is why a lot of spam email is littered with spelling mistakes. It’s not because Nigerian spammers don’t know about spell check, it’s because they’ll waste less time for a higher hit rate if only idiots respond.

If you're in need of free music for an independent or non-profit film, video, or short Moby will let you use his music for free. Yup, the guy who scored Bond and Bourne movies is just giving his shit away.

Edit II: Site is back up, thanks to u/TheCharginRhi for finding that. But folks, if you have no immediate need, just know that the site exists and let people who might have use for it click through. In the meantime, everyone else bookmark it for later.

Well the last time I went to the Moby Gratis site for music to edit with I had to submit what the project was about and lots of details, I was just looking to mess around so I didn't want to waste their time but Kevin MacLeod uses creative commons licensing, pretty easy to understand how the permissions work.

Never use mailinator for anything important. Ever. There are thousands of bots scraping mailinator looking for people who have setup accounts on there that could lead to anything of value. From games to banks.

Aunt Bertha
It's a free website that has up-to-date info on most federal, state, county, city, and non-profit free and reduced cost services (like food, clothing, housing and legal assistance). You just put in the zip code and check out the results. If you don't need it someone you know does.
This only works in the US.

Someone on a similar thread over a year ago collected a load of these together for ease, enjoy!

http://www.recoveryourlife.com/
• Help for those who struggle with self harm, suicidal thoughts, mental illness, eating disorders and abuse. Putting this at the top for importance.

Technology/Internet:

https://ninite.com/
• Select programs from a huge list, get a SINGLE installer that will download and install the latest version of everything you selected with no crapware and no input needed from you, this is an utter godsend.

• Want to know if you’re having internet issues of if the site you’re trying to get to is just down for everyone? Check here.

http://www.10minutemail.com/
• Get a random email address that self destructs in 10 minutes, perfect for signing up to websites you don’t want spam from.

https://www.mailinator.com/
• Type in an address “mailinator.com and open it’s inbox, any address. Everyone can use any address at any time. Good for signing up for things you don’t want spam from but you may need to use the address for later (bad for privacy so don’t use it if you don’t want other people seeing the mail you get).

cvmkr.com - Helps people create their resume for work. It already has templates which are very professional. The users just need to fill up the data. It is pretty useful for anyone looking for work. An HR friend of mine always emphasizes that a resume is more likely to be read thoroughly based on how professional it looks.

This was on a big Korean newspaper a while ago, I have NO doubt that other countries (especially American companies) are doing this sort of thing as well, since they encourage creativity, not professional-grade resumes.

This is a compilation I made the last time this was posted. Each entry comes from a different user on that thread. Sadly did not save their names as well.

There really is something for everyone here. Have fun!

Search Everything
Instant file search. Changed the way I used computers.

Zotero
For those of you who do academic writing, this reference manager is 100x better and 1000x freer than EndNote.

Krita
As a digital painter Krita is probably the best art software you're going to get for free (As long as you add the brush packs) some of the stuff I've managed to whip up/ the amount of adapting you can do to the main window is insane

Stud.iohttp://www.stud.io/
Is a wonderful LEGO modelling program, it's great for recapturing that feeling of building with bricks, and you don't have to worry about running out of a certain colour or stepping on a 1x1 piece. Apparently it also has an option to work on a project with your friends, but I haven't tried it out.

MuseScore
I don’t know how many people here can relate but MuseScore is fantastic for anyone who wants to put their musical ideas onto paper. It’s free and has all the functionality you could ever want from music notation software.

Handbrake.
Free, very powerful video converter.

Two come to mind:
pfSense and FreeNAS.
Both are HEAVILY used at my house!

pfSense
Is a free open source firewall and router that is feature complete to the level of competing with almost all SMB (small and medium business) commercial firewalls. It is also extremely reliable.

FreeNAS
Software network attached storage operating system. It quickly transforms any spare old computer with a few drives and a network interface to a centralized file server with support for almost everything under the sun, from Apple Time Machine backups to enterprise iSCSI setups that allow diskless booting of machines on the local network.

I just started learning it a few weeks ago, and I've already switched over to it for doing all my assignments. The documents are just so much more beautiful and well-formatted than GDocs or Word, and it handles equations and math much better than either (which is good for me since I'm in engineering so lots of math). I'd highly encourage anyone who's studying math/science/engineering to learn and start using LaTeX.

Lyx
For ppl who find latex a bit intimidating there is Lyx which is a document processor built on Latex but with a GUI.

TexStudio
TexStudio is awesome. It's helped make several papers and a dissertation just a bit less annoying.

Draftsight
Full CAD software available for free, functionality and commands work almost exactly like Autocad.

R
it is a statistics software. Has a ton of add ons that you can download for free. You have to learn it, but it will do anything once you do.

VLC
VLC saved a film of ours. No other software could read the corrupted final cut proxy files which was all that was left after a corrupt drive. But VLC was able to read most of it and export it to a full file I could use again. Pretty incredible.

The fact that you have access to all these amazing resources for free is pretty awesome.

KeePasshttps://keepass.info/
I have been using that as my password manager since 2008. It's updated regularly, has 2 versions (one .net and the other not), is entirely portable on Windows at least and works on a few OSes besides Windows. Has plugins if you need any functionality the base version doesn't have!

It's changed the way I store passwords, addresses, URLs for everything... there's a learning curve but I have fallen in love with never having to remember a password.

Notepad++
Changed the way I text edit

Recuva
It restores deleted files as long as the memory hasn't been written over:
Some days ago, i was going through clips I recorded on my camera, and by accident erased THE clip I needed.
Scanned the sd card on recuva, bam, got it back from video hell.
Thanks recuva for forgiving my carelessness.
Work on hdd too.

DaVinci Resolve
High end video color correcting. Now they bundle it with video and audio editing packages. There’s a free version.

Plex for movies.
Fricking ridiculous that it is free.
- Automatically downloads all the metadata for a movie, like thumbnail, hell even has rotten tomato scores on it.
- Has voice Api so you can actually search by voice.
- Remembers and marks episodes or movies as watched.
-Brings up new movies that you recently added to your library to the forefront.

Inkscape
Who needs Adobe Illustrator? Inkscape is powerful and its interface is wonderfully intuitive.

Darktable
Photo workflow a la lightroom. Very powerful and there are a solid number of plugins for it to boot

GIMP - F/OSS
Image editor. A bit clunky at first but insanely powerful

Krita - F/OSS
Art program a la Paint tool Sai or Corel Draw. I've used it a fair bit for cleaning comic scans.

Libre Office
Office suite without the license fees. Libre Office 6 is out now with some significant bug fixes and performance improvements.

MPD/Mopidy - F/OSS
Music player daemon. It's a bit complicated at first glance, but a very capable music player when you have everything configured. I've set it up to stream to an icecast output before for some internet radio fun.

7zip
You really have no excuse for not using 7z. It's great. It's foss. Love it.

Foobar2000
I guess most people use Spotify or Youtube to listen to music these days but foobar is godlike.

LMMShttp://lmms.io
A surprisingly versatile music studio. Not entirely comparable to FL, but it gets pretty close

Audio Router.
Great little piece of freeware that lets me route sounds through different sets of speakers, so I can watch a stream on my TV and play a game on my main monitor.

Gimp
It's an image editor that is incredibly powerful similar to photoshop and open source

Duolingo.
For a free language learning app it’s extremely clean, user friendly, and engaging. It makes learning a language fun and interactive. And comparing it to expensive software and other apps like Rosetta Stone and such, it’s very comparable if not even better in some aspects.

Greenshot
Print screen tool, very handy.

Wireshark
Super cool to mess around with if you're curious how networking works.
Also you can see what everyone is doing on the WiFi

WinDirStat
Great for making pretty tile pictures of what's on your hard drive and finding the porn folders you'd forgotten about that are taking up a ton of space.

Vncserver/viewerhttps://www.realvnc.com/en/
It's quite old, it's probably got better replacements available, it's a security hazard if not used properly, but it's utterly changed the way remote support gets done and is available on win/linux.

Ubuntuhttps://www.ubuntu.com/
An entire OS, Linux generally but Ubuntu springs to mind immediately as an amazingly easy to install and insanely useful.

I wonder how feasible a widespread movement/protest against them and the line would be. A push toward more affordable and free resources(I’ve had more and more professor not requiring a book or only requiring a free text instead). You participate by...not buying shit. I mean I get it if there’s factors like homework and what not to consider but it’s asinine with number of free works out there. This could vary for upper courses and really specialized stuff but from I’ve seen they typically used older and/or non Pearson over priced crap.

Edit: Hell tuition is so expensive, uni might as well invest into having departments make their own equivalent, if they so insist.

My argument for the past three years is that tuition should cover all materials necessary for the class.

Also, Pearson did some especially fucking aggravating bullshit with my math classes. They give professors free instructor editions (not so unusual), but all of the homework, quizzes, and tests were online. Easier for the professor because she didn't have to grade anything manually, it's automatically graded by the system. The problem is that the students can only get the code for the online system if they buy a brand new book, which cost about $200. So if you didn't buy their book (which covers mathematics that haven't changed in a hundred years), you fail the class.

I will pirate any textbook I possibly can, and not feel bad about it at all. But my college is making us buy one-time use access codes. For anywhere from $83 to $120. For a fucking semester. And all the class content is on there. Don't buy it? Can't pass the class. Can't do hw, tests, quizzes, "participation", etc. Then we have to buy a textbook along with that access code. Only place to buy some of these books is at the campus bookstore, as they're specific to my fucking university.

I'm so fucking broke from these access codes and textbooks. I've spent over $500 on access codes, rental e-books, and "university specific" textbooks/notebooks this semester.

This is a common problem at colleges. The university bookstore only ordered enough books for 1/3 of the class because they assumed the rest would either download or get the books off campus. It’s a pretty common practice so they don’t have stacks of unpurchased books when the new edition comes out.

I ran into a similar issue when my professor ordered a really bizarre book for a class that had no online pdf that anyone could find and wasn’t readily available anywhere else off campus. The bookstore ‘scrambled’ and got us all books after a few weeks.

*that said: fuck Pearson. It’s my goal as a professor/lecturer (along with teaching as best as I can) to fuck over textbook publishers as much as possible.

Mojoupgrade.com. It's a sexual online quiz that you and your partner take (separately), where you indicate things you're into, want to try, definitely don't want to try, etc. When you're both done, it shows you your results, but only shows the things you both indicated you're into. So your partner will never know you have a certain kink you may be embarrassed about unless they also share it.

I think for a lot of couples it's very difficult/awkward to talk about sex/kinks, but it is SO important. So this takes some of the pressure off and opens the door to additional dialog ie about what you're into/want to try/etc. I literally recommend it to everyone, it is always my answer to this question! Haha

Edit: for everyone saying you could just hit yes for everything and "trick" your partner: you absolutely could, but that's a completely dick move, and honestly if my partner ever did that to me I'd be done. That's a complete violation of trust. The assumption is that if you reach the stage where you're doing a quiz like this, your partner isn't a complete asshole. Also, the site only sends the results link to the person with the lesser amount of yes answers, to try to deter this further. So if your partner saw that literally everything they said came up as a match, they could hopefully call you out on it.

Edit edit: ahhh, gold?! Thanks so much, and I hope this is able to help other couples! :D

[writtenkitten.net](writtenkitten.net) is awesome when you gotta write and you don’t wanna start or when you’re stuck in the middle of a project. Every 100 words you get a new picture of a kitty. It’s a little extra motivation to get the writing muscles warmed up so you can think and freewrite to explore what your writing should say.

Saved me a ton on college books. Downloaded books as a pdf and used my iPad. Sometimes you don’t have the latest edition but I really don’t think it matters. It’s usually just a page number difference. Like my Bio book had chapter 4 on page 35, but in the latest edition it was on page 40. Nothing too drastic.

Astronomy Picture of the Day. "Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer."

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Shorpy. "Shorpy.com is a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago. "

Someone created an algorithm that wrote every possible 1000 digit paragraph that features lowercase letters and the punctuation marks , . and ? With a space of course.

Somewhere on this website, is everything. Literally everything. An accurate description of the day you were born? There's a page for that. An accurate description of the time and date of your eventual death? Also on there (along with billions of incorrect predictions)

The individual who created this technically wrote everything. Somewhere in here is the final song of fire and ice books.

Somewhere in here is a firefly season 2

EDIT: 3200 not 1000. Holy shit.

EDIT 2: wow! The responces this got! I never saw my inbox blow up like this before!

Openstax.org is a website that provides free PDF textbooks for your basic college courses. It is run by the prestigious Rice University in Houston, TX. It is legit and will save you hundreds of dollars! I used this website for all my basics! (Chemistry, biologies, maths, histories, anatomy and physiology, and political science courses).

There is also another website (and app) called Modern States that all college kids need to know about. They provide free lectures for the basic college courses. The courses use the openstax textbooks. Once your through with the course, you can register for that courses CLEP exam and get your credits this way. My husband is currently going back to school and he's clepped out of 6 courses so far, saving him hundreds if not thousands of dollars. (Double check to make sure the courses you'll be clepping out of transfer to the college of your choice)

To add to this, https://heavens-above.com/main.aspx is a website that, once you input your location and click in a few spots, will tell you *all* of the satellites that will fly overhead and be visible, dozens per night usually, although most of them will be too dim to spot.

It is absolutely fantastic. Curates all relevant industry news for you, let’s you pick the importance of categories ranging from opinion to reviews or by genres. Owner is a 20 year vet who still puts out original content. And there are zero ads. It’s all Patreon and Twitch Prime supported.